Senior Director of Community Affairs for the New York Power Authority (NYPA) in Western New York, Lou Paonessa, says the ice ...

Here in Booming Ice Chasm – a remote, apparently lifeless cavern in the belly of the Rocky Mountains – Nick Vieira is looking for the next antibiotic revolution. Almost a century ago ...

Nick Vieira takes soil samples in Booming Ice Chasm. He’ll leave petri dishes here, allow bacterial cultures to grow and bring them to Ann Cheeptham’s lab, hoping to cultivate new antibiotics.

But some places in Canada, like the Booming Ice Chasm, are always cold, even in summer. Here, explorers descend a treacherous frozen ice fall to look for clues about life on ultra-cold planets.